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Preface. X 
Soon after the publication of my Neubabylonisches Namenbuck, Helsingfors 1905, I received 
a letter from the Rev. C. H. W. JoHNs, Cambridge, in which he informed me that he, as long 
ago as 1895, had completed a similar Namenbuch in three parts — dealing with Old Babylonian, 
Assyrian, and New Babylonian — which included all the names so far published. Having mean- 
while, for reasons which it is unnecessary to mention in this connection, found himself unable 
to publish it, he offered to make over to me the manuscript of the Assyrian names to which 
he had made additions regularly as new texts came out, in order to be published by me as a 
companion volume to my Namenbuch in the same size and form. A preliminary examination of 
the manuscript which I received for inspection convinced me of its great value. And as it 
seemed to me that it would be a real loss to Assyriology, if this collection of names, which 
must have required very toilsome and tedious work, were left unpublished, I decided to accept 
it for the purpose of editing it with all such corrections and additions as I might find neces- 
sary to make. I had all the more reason for doing so as I had myself, when I was preparing 
my Namenbuch, collected personal names from Assyrian texts also and had even thought of 
publishing a special book on Assyrian names. 
As a condition for my editing the said manuscript it was agreed, in accordance with 
Mr. JOHNS' suggestion that I was to make the work in my own way in close resemblance to my 
Neubabylonisches Namenbuch. Of the right to do so I have made an extensive use. For example, 
I have grouped together the masculine and feminine names, which were separated in Mr. JoHNs' 
manuscript, and rearranged the names in the order ‘of the Latin alphabet. I have also cor- 
rected Mr. JOHNS’ readings, wherever they have appeared to me erroneous; I have inserted in the 
collection names which he has overlooked, and so forth. A number of names which he has quoted 
from unpublished texts and which I have not been able to verify, are marked with [J]. I have, 
naturally, taken care to add to the collection names from texts published after 1905 up to this 
day, in so far as they have been accessible to me. As several of these texts appeared when the 
present work was already in type, many names have been added at the end of the book. Nearly 
all translations, commentaries, and parallels included in List I. have been added by me, while 
the other parts of the book are entirely my own work. Hence I am the only one who is respon- 
sible for all the errors and deficiencies which may be found in this volume. 
It is a pleasant duty for me to express my thanks to the gentlemen who have assisted 
me in the preparation of my work. My greatest debt of gratitude is due to the Rev. C. H. W. JOHNS 
who by the confidence he has placed in me has contributed so greatly to the undertaking of 
